Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand's Great War

Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand's Great War
ISBN-10
1775589471
ISBN-13
9781775589471
Category
Music
Pages
308
Language
English
Published
2017-10-15
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Author
Chris Bourke

Description

They left their Southern Lands, They sailed across the sea; They fought the Hun, they fought the Turk For truth and liberty. Now Anzac Day has come to stay, And bring us sacred joy; Though wooden crosses be swept away – We'll never forget our boys. – Jane Morison, ‘We'll never forget our boys', 1917 Be it ‘Tipperary' or ‘Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music introduces us the songs and sounds of World War I in order to take us deep inside the human experience of war.

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